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This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't.

J. D. Salinger

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J. D. Salinger
Age: 91 †
Born: 1919
Born: January 1
Died: 2010
Died: January 27
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New York City
New York
Jerome David Salinger
Jerome Salinger
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The existence of God, the why of life, was all that really only a question of glands?
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
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Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.
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Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies
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Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the same energy to stay well and busy?
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I am always saying Glad to've met you to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.
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who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.
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We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.
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In the first place, you’re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself.
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Do it for the fat lady!
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I feel overwhelmingly grateful to them, but I don't know what to do with their invisible gifts.
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It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.
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They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way.
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Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.
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I'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel that he knows how (poor sucker) to put them together again. I'm tired—my God, so tired—of leaving them all broken on the page with just 'The End' written underneath.
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There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
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If you're not in the mood, you can't do that stuff right.
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